If you’re looking for a quarantine craft, this color block potholder is perfect! If you want, you could take your time and spend a whole day prepping and crocheting these. Just imagine: waking up, cranking up some tunes, cleaning out your dresser, sorting your old t-shirts, cutting them into yarn, and crocheting some spiffy new potholders. Honestly, it only takes about 15 minutes to crochet one of these potholders, but I think we’re all running out of things to do, right?

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These two-toned potholders are crocheted with t-shirt yarn upcycled from old shirts, so there’s no need to go to the craft store. If you have some on hand, you could totally use store-bought t-shirt yarn, but then you won’t get the satisfaction of cleaning out your shirt drawer.

Usually my potholder patterns are two layers, but the t-shirt yarn is thick, which means you only need one layer of single crochets. Because of the bulky yarn, you can make a good sized potholder (~8 x 7.5 inches) super, super fast. Like 15 minutes fast. Maybe 30 if you haven’t made the t-shirt yarn yet.

When you finish crocheting, don’t forget to share pics on Instagram! Tag me (@youshouldcraft) and use #colorblockpotholder so everyone can see your color block potholders.

Supplies and Materials:

T-shirt yarn from two different colored shirts (mine were men’s small)

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